Anti-Exploit Measures for Caravan (Can I have it?)

[AdvancedWind]

First off: Exploiting / leeching should be fixed, no questioning about that. As for the second argument, I can't say I'm sure about which side is right.

Yeah, caravan is suposed to be like behest, first come first serve. However, unlike behest, the rewards are meaningful enough to warrant parties dedicated to do it exclusively - it's the kind of thing linkshells get organized to do. "No one" went to do behests as their main content, outside of specific cases. Even LS groups doing behest were more like "well, it's behest time, let's get this 'free leve' and go back to our levequest sharing pt or w/e".

As such, it really was no big deal to adhere to the first come / first serve rule.

Caravan security, on the other hand, is a more focused event, specially the 45. People gather to do only that, in their 8man pt. I doubt anyone would have a problem with alternating runs with another group, as 1k seal runs usually last enough time for the pt to miss the next caravan anyways.

However, you have to admit that it's very frustrating when 1-2 guys want to do it and "depend" on your pt to be able. It's like having forced randoms join your LS event, and I can see why people might not want to do that. They're working to get their seals for their LS / pt and probably planned the event in advance explicitly for that. They can do it without you, but you can't do it without them, and you're taking the place of a member of their group.

I know it's a very bad analogy, but imagine you're in a park or w/e with a group of friends, then one of you goes to the bathroom and during that time, a random guy sits in where he was. It's not "against" the rules, but it would probably piss off the group and they would likely go find another place to sit if that random guy didn't want to leave.